“I view the wonderful gifts nature gives us. Those hills with the yellow sunflowers and the trees budding out. I just marvel at it. People should take a little more time to look at how a flower opens up. You can go by a bush one day and it’s in bud, the next day it’s opening and the next it’s come out. I think that’s just marvellous.”

— Helen Sidney, Vernon senior who spends two hours a day cleaning up roadside garbage.

“'Coming down the stairs and seeing two RCMP officers there, I distinctly remember thinking ‘Holy crap. I hope that she was shoplifting or spray-painted a bench somewhere, anything. Please be anything.’”

— Cameron Gatey, father of Kamloops teen killed in hit and run the day before her seventeenth birthday.

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